> My apologies, I don't know much about the floppy drive and IDE
> interface, just assumed both were generally parallel like and might
> be able to partialy share the same data bus or something. Too bad.
>
It is a shame.  Interfacing a floppy to a PIC has been discussed several
times on here in the past, and the conclusion was that without the dedicated
floppy interface, bit bashing would be extremely difficult.  Would have been
very handy for e.g. data loggers, but I guess not that flash memory is so
cheap, and uses so much less power the idea is pretty much redundant.

Regards

Mike

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